Toyota Recalls

Three separate but related recalls of automobiles by Toyota Motor Corporation occurred at the end of 2009 and start of 2010. Toyota initiated the recalls, the first two with the assistance of the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), after several vehicles experienced unintended acceleration. The first recall, on November 2, 2009, was to correct a possible incursion of an incorrect or out-of-place front driver's side floor mat into the foot pedal well, which can cause pedal entrapment.

The second recall, on January 21, 2010, was begun after some crashes were shown not to have been caused by floor mat incursion. This latter defect was identified as a possible mechanical sticking of the accelerator pedal causing unintended acceleration, referred to as Sticking Accelerator Pedal by Toyota. The original action was initiated by Toyota in their Defect Information Report, dated October 5, 2009, amended January 27, 2010. Following the floor mat and accelerator pedal recalls, Toyota also issued a separate recall for hybrid anti-lock brake software in February 2010.

As of January 28, 2010, Toyota had announced recalls of approximately 5.2 million vehicles for the pedal entrapment/floor mat problem, and an additional 2.3 million vehicles for the accelerator pedal problem. Approximately 1.7 million vehicles are subject to both.

Recall timeline

  • 09 / 26 / 2007 - US: 55,000 Camry and ES 350 cars in "all-weather" floormat recall.
  • 11 / 02 / 2009 - US: 3.8m Toyota and Lexus vehicles again recalled due to floormat problem, this time for all driver's side mats.
  • 11 / 26 / 2009 - US: floormat recall amended to include brake override and increased to 4.2m vehicles.
  • 01 / 21 / 2010 - US: 2.3m Toyota vehicles recalled due to faulty accelerator pedals (of those, 2.1m already involved in floormat recall).
  • 01 / 27 / 2010 - US: 1.1m Toyotas added to amended floormat recall.
  • 01 / 29 / 2010 - Europe, China: 1.8m Toyotas added to faulty accelerator pedal recall.
  • 02 / 08 / 2010 - Worldwide: 436,000 hybrid vehicles in brake recall following 200 reports of Prius brake glitches.
  • 02 / 09 / 2010 - US: 7,300 Camry vehicles recalled over potential brake tube problems.

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